Nadene Goldfoot
We are people of Shem, one of the 3 sons of Noah. Ham and Japheth were the other 2 sons. We are a Semitic people speaking tongues akin to Hebrew. Egyptians came from Ham.We started off with the same father and mother as the children of Abraham.of Ur of the Chaldees and Sarah, Abraham's niece.. The genealogy shows that Isaac, son of Abraham, had fraternal twins,, Jacob and Esau. The break came here between these two very different brothers. Jacob was his mother's favorite while Isaac seemed to favor Esau, the hunter. Jacob plays the main character in the Jewish history, buying his brother Esau's birthright from him for a mess of pottage, getting his father's blessing that really was intended for Esau, 1st born son, , becoming father of 12 sons who were progenitors of the 12 tribes of Israel as Jacob had wrestled a heavenly emissary and had overtaken him, then receiving the special name of Israel. Supposedly the emissary Jacob had overcome was Esau's guardian angel.
Esau had left the family group and so did Ishmael. The story of Esau symbolized the relationship between the two nations, developing to the point of hostility. In the Talmud, Esau was synonymous with villainy and violence. Esau in late Hebrew literature implies a coarse materialist. Esau and Jacob bore very close DNA having the same parents, Isaac and Rebecca.
Ishmael shared his father, Abraham with Jacob who had Abraham as his grandfather. Isaac and Ishmael were half-brothers. Ishmael's mother, was the Egyptian, Hagar. He lived at Paran but joined Isaac in burying Abraham after being separated from him. Ishmael's daughter married Esau. Ishmael's descendants were called the Ishmaelites. They were also divided into 12 tribes (AGen.25:12) who lived in North Arabia between Egypt and the Assyrian border. The Torah refers several times to their trade with Egypt. Traditionally, they are the Arab descendants of Ishmael and modern Arabs still claim this descent.
Circumstances caused the rift between Jacob and Esau and the birthright that went to the oldest son by their tradition. Right off, Jacob connived and received his father's birthright by duping his brother. That set in motion the rest of their days of non-trust by Esau. Then, Ishmael, who would be the father of the Arab nation, only shared half his Y DNA with Jacob having a different mitochondrial (mt) haplotype of his mother's side, being Hagar.
What else besides DNA could make them a little different?
Jacob's 12 sons that started the 12 Tribes of Jacob-IsraelOne difference was that Jacob's family experienced a dry spell, a drought, a famine that caused them to migrate to Egypt from Canaan, where they became slaves for 400 years, That does something to the minds of men. They were freed by Moses, a Prince of Egypt but one of their own as he found his birth parents were slaves.
Picking the manna from heaven that only lasted so long.He took them on a 40 year migration where they were blessed to be supplied, or found in the fields through that period, manna, a special type of toadstool, or plant of sorts, supplied through their prayers. It had all the super ingredients of space food now supplied to our astronauts on their journeys through space; everything a human would need, protein, all the vitamins, etc. This kept the Israelites going, though they missed dearly all the great food they had in Egypt. At least the Egyptians had kept their slaves eating well. No one but the Israelites has ever eaten Manna, manna from heaven. Is this what makes us Jews having fairly high IQ's? The Exodus group numbered 601,730 at the end of their journey in Canaan being they had 1,820 less than they started with 40 years prior. They had to fight the Amaleks, people who would not wish them safety on their way or food for the journey as many others had done. They had killed their old, their young and frail who may have been at the end of the line.
One thing that differs is that ever since their creation as Israelites believing in the Mosaic Law, believing in One Unseen G-d that needed no idol, no icon, no statue; they have been judged as being different from others. ALL other people on earth were polytheistic, believing in many gods for the many things that frightened or awed them. Israelites, who would later be called Jews for the one remaining state left, Judah, believed in ONE UNSEEN G-d. Moses (1391-1271 BCE to 632 CE is about 4,000 years ago of believing in ONE G-d.
Resource:
The New Standard Jewish encyclopedia
http://bioanthropology.huji.ac.il/pdf/Nebel2000.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543766/#:~:text=The%20closest%20genetic%20neighbors%20to,their%20own%20histories%20of%20endogamy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Jews#:~:text=the%20authors%20show%20that%20Kurdish,drift%20during%20isolation%20among%20Ashkenazim).
The name given, in Psalms 105:23,17; 106:22 (compare 78:51), to Egypt as a descendant of Ham, son of Noah.
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